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Sport England – ‘Shaping the Future of Sport’ conference, 27 March 2007 Click here for the press release and Derek Mapp’s speech at the conference held in London. Sport England’s £195 million reserves already committed to community sports projects In response to the recent articles in various papers regarding unspent Lottery funds click here to read Derek Mapp's reply on Sport England's main website Jennie Price visits the region Jennie Price, the new CE of Sport England, made her first visit to the West Midlands office to meet the SEWM team, RSB chair and representative members of the RSB and CSP directors on 20 April. Jennie also visited the redevelopment work being undertaken on the sports facilities at Tudor Grange School and the Norman Green Sports Centre in Solihull. Jennie intends to be a regular visitor to all SE regional offices. New equity guide from SE’s East Region Click here to view
Sport England West Midlands - contact telephone numbers click here to download
England Hockey – DOs for the WM region As you may be aware England Hockey recently appointed 13 new Development Officers (DO’s) to work within the regions. The DO’s appointed within the Midlands are as follows: Amy Dennis – Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire Amy will be based at the Midlands office 01509 228676 or 07718 980510 Amy will work with Amy Carter HDO for Nottinghamshire and Nicky Shellard HDO for Staffordshire. Nisar Chaudhry – Birmingham, Black Country, Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire Nisar will be based in Birmingham Nisar.chaudhry@englandhockey.org 0121 464 6012 or 07718 980508 Emma Hewitt – Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Emma is currently based at Bisham Abbey 01628 890462 or 07718 980512
The areas they will be working within are as follows: (1) To work with the County Hockey Associations & County Sports Partnerships to ensure: a. There is a clear development plan for every county that sets out how they are delivering Uniting the Hockey Family and the Single System b. There is a hockey development group at County level that is able to drive this work (2) To work with County Hockey Associations to put in place Junior Development Centre’s and Junior Academy Centre’s as part of the Single System implementation plan. a. Level 1 coaching courses (and identify potential Level 2 & 3 candidates)
CCPR - Comment on Olympic funding plans Please view their press release issued on 15 March 2007 - click here
An obesity toolkit with practical tips and information was recently launched to help people fight the flab and improve their health. With almost a quarter of the adult population now classified as obese and with the proportion of obese children rising by more than 40 per cent between 1995 and 2004, an obesity toolkit is being published to help local councils and health bodies support people in their area to beat the bulge. Jennie Price the new Chief Executive of Sport England welcomed the toolkit, stating that sport has a major role to play in this area through helping people of all ages and abilities to be more active, and to do so in an enjoyable way.
Chancellor sets out increased support for children/families Gordon Brown this week published the results of a joint review by HM Treasury and the Department for Education and Skills into services for children and young people. Aiming High for Children: supporting families will inform decisions in this area over the Comprehensive Spending Review period. The review includes plans for increased investment in Sure Start Children's Centres, one-to-one tuition in schools, out-of-school activities, and support for mothers and fathers with their parenting responsibilities. It also seeks to help families at risk through providing extra support, as well as getting appropriate engagement from families, such as through parenting contracts.
Big Lottery Fund to manage £30m programme to enable communities to take on local assets Ed Miliband, Minister for the Third Sector, this week announced that the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) will manage a new £30m programme to enable community-led third sector organisations to own and run under-used public buildings. The new Community Assets Fund (CAF) will offer grants for refurbishment of local authority buildings, ensuring they are appropriate for community use and for transfer to third sector ownership or management. The CAF will provide valuable new facilities for communities and respond to the third sector’s desire to make best use of local assets. The Office of The Third Sector will run a 12–week consultation with key stakeholders on precisely how the fund will operate. The CAF aims to:
Click here for further information about the fund.
Of most significance in the Budget speech on 21 March, was the Chancellor’s announcement that “To encourage the community use of schools' sports facilities we will remove the VAT restriction and enable our academies to make their sports facilities available to their local communities”. Further details are available in Budget Note 25. Unsurprisingly the Olympics featured in the Budget Report, with particular attention directed at how “The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be an outstanding celebration of sport and culture inspiring a generation of children and providing a lasting legacy for some of the most deprived London communities, with benefits for the whole country”. There was a substantial part regarding the need for a “vibrant third sector” and how the Government will “support the third sector to build communities, empower marginalised groups of people, and contribute to the design and delivery of key public services”. The Budget also highlighted that the Government supports a philanthropic culture of volunteering to enable the third sector to benefit from connections to the corporate sector and the general public. The Budget also announced additional funds to promote community action and voice with £80 million to be made available to provide core funding to grass-roots community organisations. The Government also announced support for capacity building investment through the Futurebuilders fund, which will be open to all third sector organisations from spring 2008, as well as extra support for encouraging social enterprises. The Budget also displayed the Government’s intention to increase awareness and understanding of the benefits of volunteering to a diverse range of groups, including through ‘v’ (The charity launched in May 2006 to take forward the recommendations of the Russell Commission report on youth action and engagement).
Volunteering in SportThe Futurebuilders Advisory Panel (FBAP) published their first progress report on the Government's Futurebuilders programme – in which they welcomed its work as ‘highly innovative’ and ‘ahead of its time.’ In their first ever progress report, the independent Panel recommended the Futurebuilders fund should be continued into a second phase to run from 2008–2011. Additional conclusions include:
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Parliament - Hunter - Public Health (Targets on Physical Exercise) Thu, 19 Apr 07 |House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what progress is being made by the Government on reaching its target of getting 70 per cent. of the population physically active by 2020; and what projects there are in place to reach the target; [132509] (2) how much the Government have spent on reaching its target of getting 70 per cent. of the population physically active by 2020 in the last 12 months; and how much is planned to be spent over the next five years. [132510] Caroline Flint: ‘Choosing Activity: a physical activity action plan’ set out a plan to promote physical activity for all in accordance with the evidence and recommendations set out in the Chief Medical Officer’s report ‘At least five a week. Choosing Activity’ summarised how we would deliver the physical activity commitments in the Public Health White Paper ‘Choosing Health’ and other Government announcements prior to its publication in March 2005. By January 2007, 57 of the 99 commitments had been achieved. Projects support physical activity and sport in schools, workplaces, and in the community. The Government’s physical activity priorities were published in public service agreement targets to halt the year-on-year increase in obesity among children under 11, increase the take up of cultural and sporting opportunities by adults and young people aged 16 and above, and to enhance the take up of sporting opportunities by 5 to 16-year olds through physical exercise and school sport. The Government remain committed to building upon this progress and in transforming the population into a fitter and more active nation in the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Government have and continue to invest millions in supporting physical activity and sport, nationally and across the NHS and local government. The Department does not collect detailed breakdowns of individual expenditure on physical activity by all local agencies such as primary care trusts and local authorities. Spending allocations for the next five years are subject to the current comprehensive spending review. Commons Questions – 25 Apr 07 1. 55 Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how she plans to monitor the level of change in participation in sports and physical activity resulting from London's hosting of the Olympics (a) before, (b) during and (c) after the event takes place; whether the Government has made any predictions of the likely level of changes; and if she will make a statement. 2. Foster, Don - 2012 Olympics funding Contents 54 Mr Don Foster (Bath): To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the diversion of funding from the Big Lottery Fund to the 2012 Olympics upon (a) the efforts of statutory agencies to promote physical activity and (b) the Government's target of 50 per cent. of adults meeting the recommended minimum level of physical activity by 2011; and if she will make a statement.
NVCO - coalition of arts, sports and heritage organisations campaign against 'Olympic Lottery raid' Mon, 23 Apr 07 |Campaign Organisation Press Release Analysis The NCVO has reported that a coalition of arts, sports and heritage organisations are campaigning together to press the Government to reconsider its 'Lottery raid' to fund the increasing cost of the 2012 Olympics. Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive of NCVO, said: 'NCVO welcomed the commitment that the Big Lottery Fund's resources to the voluntary and community sector will be protected, but we are very concerned that similar protection has not been provided for charities, voluntary organisations and community groups that apply for funds from Arts Council England, Sport England and the Heritage Lottery Fund. I hope that the wider voluntary and community sector will support sports, arts and heritage organisations in this campaign.' Arts, sports and heritage groups urge Government not to raid Lottery fund to pay for 2012 Games Mon, 23 Apr 07 |Campaign Organisation Press Release Analysis A partnership between the Voluntary Arts Network, CCPR and Heritage Link is fighting to press the Government to reconsider its plans to use the Lottery fund to pay for the increasing cost of the 2012 Olympics. Robin Simpson, Chief Executive of the Voluntary Arts Network, said: "Across the UK, voluntary arts groups are rooted in almost every local community and provide an excellent way to ensure the Olympic Cultural programme reaches out to the whole country. The voluntary arts sector provides the potential for collaboration and celebration on a vast scale which would increase participation, both in the arts and in local communities. But for this to happen we need the support and enthusiasm of existing participants and groups. The further diversion of lottery funds threatens to erode this support and threatens the development, and even the survival, of many groups both between now and 2012 and beyond 2012."
Parliament - Clark, G - National Lottery Grants (Olympics) Thu, 22 Mar 07 |House of Commons - Written Answer Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will break down by lottery distributor the money transferred from the Lottery to fund the Olympics. [129188] Mr. Caborn: We will, subject to parliamentary approval, transfer £1,085 million from non-Olympic lottery proceeds to the Olympic funding package. Of this, approximately £638 million will be transferred from the Big Lottery Fund. The remainder will be shared between 11 of the other 12 non-Olympic lottery distributors in proportion to their fixed shares of income from the lottery. However, no transfer will be made from UK Sport. The amounts to be transferred from each non-Olympic distributor to make up this amount, rounded to the nearest £0.1 million, are detailed in the following table: In addition, £750 million will be raised from Olympic lottery products and the five sports lottery distributors will distribute a further £340 million to maximise the benefit to British sport of hosting the games.
Thu, 22 Mar 07 |House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps the Government are taking to encourage and facilitate higher levels of physical activity by people in everyday life. [129134] Caroline Flint: “Choosing Activity: a physical activity action plan”, published on 9 March 2005, sets out 99 actions across Government to promote physical activity among children, in the community, in workplaces, and in the NHS. Government implementation of Choosing Activity includes: In December 2006, the Department, Sport England and Natural England published recommendations to support the local commissioning of physical activity interventions. These were based on the findings of the local exercise action pilots (LEAP), which demonstrated that physical activity interventions are cost-effective and can save the NHS money in the long-term by reducing ill-health. LEAP has also shown that it is possible to engage a broad range of people, and to increase physical activity levels. The National Step-0-Meter Programme, a joint programme across the Department and Natural England, is training health professionals across the country in motivational interviewing and the use of pedometers as a motivational tool, and providing free pedometers for loan to their patients. To date 4,000 primary care health professionals, across 220 PCTs (pre-reconfiguration) have been trained in motivational behaviour change. To support the above programmes, the Department has developed a simple tool, the general practice physical activity questionnaire (GPPAQ) for routine use in general practice to help health professionals decide when advice and interventions to increase physical activity might be appropriate to offer a patient. A school pedometer programme, distributing 40,000 pedometers to 250 schools in deprived areas to encourage children to become more active, and enabling all schools to access resources to support increased physical activity. It is a requirement since 2005 for all schools participating in the National Healthy Schools programme to meet criteria for physical activity. The Department for Transport are rolling out the new national standard for cycle training, Bikeability, from spring 2007, with the aim that by 2009 half of all year six pupils in England will be trained through schemes awarding the new standard.
Thu, 22 Mar 07 |House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much her Department spent on promoting physical activity to (a) children, (b) pensioners and (c) adults in each of the last five years; [129122] (2) how much public money the Government spent on the encouragement of physical activity among the general population for public health purposes in each of the last five years; and how much is planned to be spent over the next five years. [129126] Caroline Flint: The Department and the national health service promote the benefits of physical activity in many ways to professionals, the public and other stakeholders. In particular, primary care trusts are required to have systematic and managed health promotion programmes, including action on exercise, that are responsive to local needs. Spending on the promotion of sport and physical recreation by the NHS is not recorded centrally. Alongside spending by the NHS to support local delivery of physical activity programmes for adults and children, the Department has funded pilot work to inform interventions. This has included: the local exercise action pilot scheme (LEAP), which has been jointly funded by the Department, Sport England and the Countryside Agency with an overall cost of £2.5 million between 2003 and 2006. The LEAP pilots included interventions targeted towards children, adults and older people; a joint Department, Department for Education and Skills, and Youth Sport Trust pilot programme Schools on the Move, which includes resource materials for schools, teachers and young people to help integrate pedometers into the life of the school. The Department has invested £100,000 in the pilot during 2005 and 2006; and a contribution of £27,000 by the Department in 2003 to a pilot initiative which distributed 10,000 Step-O-Meters to general practitioner practices in areas of high deprivation and high rates of coronary heart disease. Other funding partners were the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation. National programmes to promote physical activity arising out of this pilot work include: the National Step-O-Meter Programme, led jointly by the Department of Health and Natural England, is training health professionals across the country in motivational interviewing and the use of pedometers as a motivational tool, and providing free pedometers for loan to their patients. The Department has invested £650,000 in this programme since 2005; and a £494,000 school pedometer programme, distributing 40,000 pedometers to 250 schools in deprived areas to encourage children to become more active, and enabling all schools to access resources to support increased physical activity. The Secretary of State for Health, through the section 64 general scheme of grants (s64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968), has power to make grants to voluntary organisations in England whose activities support the Department’s policy priorities. The Department has provided funding to physical activity based programmes under the section 64 scheme to the following organisations: Sustrans; Amateur Swimming Association; English Federation of Disability Sport; National Heart Forum; and British Trust for Conservation Volunteers. For the coming year, the Department intends to spend £1.6 million on increasing physical activity. Spending allocations for the years after 2007-08 have yet to be finalised.
Parliament - Elite sports (finance) Mon, 26 Mar 07 |House of Commons - Written Answer Contents Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) the Government and (b) the Big Lottery Fund spent on elite sport, including facilities and major events, in each of the last five years; and how much is planned to be spent in each of the next five years. [129088] Mr. Caborn: UK Sport is the Government's lead agency for elite sport in the UK and a lottery distributor. The table provides details of the level of Government and national lottery funding to UK Sport over the last five years.
Over the next five years UK Sport plans to invest approximately £508.6 million of Exchequer and lottery money in elite sport. Sport England provides some funding for English non-Olympic sports at elite level and, prior to April 2006, also provided elite funding to English Olympic sports. This funding was wholly from the lottery and was made via Sport England's world class programmes. This ran between1997 and 2005 and a total of £236,679,512 was provided over this period. Since 1 April 2005, Sport England's investment in national governing bodies (NGBs) has been made via whole sport or one stop plans. Between 2005 and 2009 Sport England estimates that £59 million will be distributed to support elite sport On 9 March Sport England launched its proposals for NGB investment between 2009 and 2013. This will determine future funding for non-Olympic elite sports. The plan is to have funding agreements in place by March 2008. Figures from Sport England show that the following capital amounts have been spent to build or refurbish elite sports facilities (defined for this purpose as the English institutes of sport and the national sports centres) over the period 02-03 to 06-07:
In addition, DCMS, Sport England and the London Development Agency have contributed £161 million (£120 million Lottery and £41 million Exchequer) towards the cost of the Wembley Stadium project which opened its doors for the first time on 17 March 26 Mar 2007 : Column 1252W 2007; and Sport England and DCMS have contributed £11 million towards the cost of the Lee Valley athletics centre (£7 million lottery and £4 million Exchequer) which opened formally in January 2007. Sport England anticipates spending an additional £3 million in the period up to 2007-08 on the national sports centres. Funding on elite sports facilities beyond 2007-08 will be subject to the outcomes of the comprehensive spending review. UK Sport distributes lottery funding each year, through the world class events programme, to support NGBs' bidding and staging costs for major sporting events. Between 2002 and 2006 UK Sport invested £1.6 million a year in this programme. From 2007 it will be investing £3.3 million a year. The big lottery fund money has not allocated any funding to support elite sport.
DCLG – Creative programmers announcedMon, 02 Apr 07 |Government Press Release Summary The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced the creation of a network of regional 'creative programmers' as part of plans for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The eight new programmers covering the eight English regions outside of London will work to create opportunities for ordinary people to take part, and to link the regions and the 2012 organising body LOCOG. They will also assess whether local projects meet the Cultural Olympiad criteria, and ensure heritage is well represented. Culture Minister David Lammy commented 'The 2012 Games are set to be the greatest show on earth. But they will be about a lot more than a few glorious weeks of sporting excellence. From the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Games in 2008, the UK will put on a Cultural Olympiad, a developing four-year celebration of the UK's cultural life that will be a perfect curtain-raiser to the Games in 2012.'
Sports Industry Informer Click here for the March 2007 edition
Economic Importance of Sport – new reports Sport England has appointed the Sport Industry Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University as a Collaborating Centre for ‘Sport and the Economy’ for 2005-2008. As part of this they produce the annual ‘Economic Importance of Sport’ reports (these build on the Cambridge Econometric reports from 2003). The latest reports have just been published. There is a report for each region, and one for England as a whole. These reports are based on 2003 data (and make comparisons to 2000 data; for England there are trends from 1985-2003) and look at sports-related economic activity, sports related employment and consumer expenditure on sport. Please view the reports Key findings:
2012 - Internet at heart of Coe plan to lure young off the sofa News article from 24 April: Click here to view the full article
Strategic approach to training camps for the WM - work commissioned by Sport England " Reddenhill Consulting has been commissioned to develop a strategic approach to attracting teams and groups of athletes to the region to undertake training and perhaps site their holding camps. This will be achieved through developing a strategy for each sub region and Local Authority, matching what each area has to offer with the requirements of teams. The strategy will also address how individual teams should be approached. Note that this work is now underway and is due to completed this spring
Should you require further information on this work please ring Steve Town to discuss. "
2012 Cultural Olympiad Creative Programmers – one in the WM Creative Programmers for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad Creative Programmers will be key to the creation of an outstanding Programme spanning 2008–2012, across the whole of the United Kingdom.
Closing the Gap - Stoke Please see the evaluation report of the project – click here to view and read on for more info..... Sport England received the note below from Andrew Heaward., Programme Manager on 30 March: “Today I was excited to receive a letter from the MJ's editor informing me that we have been selected as one of 7 finalists in the 'Promoting Active Communities Achievement of the Year' category. The finalists will be announced in a glossy supplement which will go out with this week’s issue of the MJ. The winner will be announced on the 28th June at a Gala dinner at the Hilton Hotel in London. Regardless of if we win or not it is a fantastic achievement to reach this stage in a prestigious national awards programme and we have now earned the right to use a MJ finalist logo for the next 12 months on our publications etc.” SEWM and the RSB congratulate all involved with the project on getting on the final list.
CultureWM e-newsletter April Please view – click here
GOWM quarterly newsletter Please view – click here
BIG Lottery Fund e-newsletter April Please view – click here
SE Club and Coach programme announcement A press release was issued on Tuesday, 10 April re the £4m going to this programme through NGBs in the West Midlands. Click here to view.
Respect and RAMP Please view – click here
Active Design Active Design has been commissioned by Sport England to promote new environments that offer opportunities for communities to be naturally active as part of their daily life. In promoting physical activity and walking and cycling (referred to as Active Travel) Active Design integrates with a number of converging agendas: Please view the latest Active Design publication - click here and their dedicated web page
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